I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm